Stopping by Ken's woodyard to make some PERFECT firewood with him and his Husqvarna 395 & John Deere 3025. Come along as we cut wood on a B-E-A-U-tiyful Wisconsin summer morning.
Everything is just perfect in this video ! The weather , the green tractor , the orange saws , the wood , and the most important , the people ! Just perfect .👍
Ken we need to utilize both ends of that tractor. You need a 3 point pallet setup to stack on also. Twice as much in one trip…although Leroy might be out of a seat.
If Ken expects to get more of these great rejected railroad tie loads he should have a weld shop make him a six way wedge. All he would need would be two horizontal wedges that would slide over his existing vertical wedge. He would cut his splitting time by 60%. One split rather than three.
You’re brother is a survivor makes do with what he has and thinking of different ways . It’s different just being 75 miles away how it changes . Good video 😊
Years ago I used to turn down slab wood and rejected logs from mills in the area.. this year over 1600 cords processed thru 2 saw mills so far.. once ya get into the bundled wood it's a decent money maker.. sometimes we just need to rethink what's in front of us.. 😁
I'm humbled at the amount of firewood and how beautifully stacked and organized it is. I just do a little for my wife and me, maybe a few cords. Now I want to go make my stacking look good like your stacks! LOL, that means I'll be touching my wood again...
Arms, hands, muscles, eyes and guts. Cowboy hats. Easy work sometimes but mabe not later, just being American with a few good people to be around. And possibly not going nuts is the way of life to feel good. Yea men.
I never wear gloves. Unless its cold. I have a better feel for whatever I am doing without them. Don't really ever seem to get splinters. My family owns a factory though and for years I worked there still do every now and then when I am in town if they need help and we work with tubing round or box. So I had hours and hours cutting it and deburring it on bench grinders without gloves. Makes yours hands like leather. Every now and then would have a tube take off in your hands spinning and its always covered in little chips of steel from cutting and its all coated in oil since its steel. Didn't have the issues with the copper so much. Would like like a raccoon at the end of the day if you were deburring but we usually gave that to the new guys or temps lol. Your whole face would be black besides where the goggles were covering your eyes. Have had metal still get in my eyes before though that is no fun. Between that and the mandrel benders and everything else running all day. My uncle actually had a couple fingers ripped off by one of the benders not paying attention
@@InTheWoodyard Kenny knows a guy… probably about as massive an understatement as you guys have wood. You guys are friendly, fun, hard workers, and willing to help others. I’m sure you get ample returns on knowing a guy for the special materials you need.
Great video Chris! A lot wisdom in that yard. Ole Ken is a real hustler and walking wood professor lol Them big arms show how long he's been in the game. Big brothers are awesome. Keep up the good work!
Great video Chris. I love the way you and your brother get along. Those chunks left over would be great for your dad's stove. He could handle them just fine.
Chris, 0700hrs. here in the mid-Hudson valley area of New York State. It's the last day of July and it's 51 degrees, my kind of weather! Keep "cutting" and keep the videos coming!
Love the ingenuity & hard work!! Great set up. Build the tools to work for you. Reuse wood others don't want to save your money. All around great!! Keep it up!
Chris, thatbis quite the set up with Ken's Sorting table, his John Deere tractor, and bucket set up. Those tie cutoffs are a dandy! It helps to know people or especially like Ken had a working relationship with his old boss! Those sure make nice pieces and stack nicely! That mesh is awesome! I will have to look into seeeing about finding that mesh! Great work Chris showing us Ken and Leroy's splitting and stacking along touring his wood yard!
That was a great video. Ken was talking some pretty big numbers there but he obviously knows what is what. Interesting to see the difference in your yards in light of the different types of customers you are selling to. Thanks Chris.
Hey Chris, your brother Ken is also a Very Hard Worker, maybe he will start his own channel, give you some competition. 😂 Ken said this is the Best Job he's ever had.
I love that staging table he has, but the speed on yours is a big advantage. Looks like you need to bring the eastonmade up and have the ultimate splitter showdown!
That wood is so much nicer than the stringy crap we have on our farm in N. Kansas. Octogenarian Aunt still heats with wood in the homestead rock house. The family fills the woodshed every year. Simple little splitter and a few chainsaws cut and split 14" chunks (that's what fits the stove) on a long weekend. To have beautiful wood like that would make things go 3x faster.
Next time you happen to be at Ken's I'd like to see a 6 minute walk around of the tractor, What he added made or he improved upon . Love that bucket back stop. Another good presentation
Dryer felts. They are on non-paved driveways all over these parts. They’re hard to come by now since we’re down to one paper mill from four back in the day. Kenny…running out of room…lol. Doesn’t care what his t-shirt says but his ratchet strap matches his tractor. 👍🏻 (I, on the other hand, am fussy about my shirt loyalty/interest statement) Chris, a smooth operator walking and filming. 😉 Cheers boys. 🇨🇦
Fascinating to watch the team work and that reject tie wood is awesome. Connections sure help and as Ken said, you sure have to beat the competition to the pile. Easy to see why that stuff is popular. Now I'm checking to find tie mills around this part of the world. 👍 GNI
I love the big blocks as I load the stove solid when out Come home and it's a hot 🔥 coal bed PS My stove is double door massive maw and depth to double stack three wide Gotta love the designers
Wow albeit that's possibly the nicest woodyard in N. America! How about a round of applause 👏 for Ken! He must be close to the U.P. border way he mentioned working in the paper mill Great video as always GNI 👍👍
I have five brothers! We're all in our 60s and 70s! We still have a good time every time we get together! I have two sisters. Don't ever give Carol Chardonnay wine. outcomes her tea towels. My brothers and I were all standing together sister Carol come up and said I want to show you something. Pulled her top up! She didn't have no time on. Last family reunion
Why does firewood interest me and so many other people. I’m light weight obsessed with different species and how they burn, split, season etc. I like splitting it stacking it and of course burning it. Why…? Why is this such a strange obsession. Good channel and seems like a good dude. If i lived in his area i would totally buy from him. I live in Cleveland Ohio and its hard to get proper seasoned and clean hardwood. Everyone likes to sell cords which are really 2/3 of maybe a little more than that, so frustrating
look at them young bucks splitting while the old guy holds the camera🤘 haha jk great vid guys sweet hookup on the rail road ties🔥 nice counterweight on the tractor too!
Absolutely beautiful beautiful wood all round here. Even the worse "ugly ugly" wood at 38:40 is still way better than some of the best firewood that we can buy here for where I live in Tasmania. LOL. ☆☆☆☆☆
Can never find any nice quality wood of so many varieties like you have there. All cut, split, stacked, covered and dry. Just awesome indeed. And even deliveries in small quantities like just one face cord would not be possible here. The minimum delivery would usually be at least 2 "rough" full cords or more.
The nylon roll is a good-ass idea. I wonder if old billboard tarps would let water run through them through tiny holes. Or, you could put it on a nice smooth ground that's levelled off to run water downhill. Or maybe a bed of rocks with a water trough going away from it.
Take an old bucket seat from a junk car and mount it on the three point hitch to make for a more comfortable ride for the old man. I’m sure he will appreciate it. Ideally with the seatbelt attached to the bucket seat Food for thought
Jeeeze do the math on the stack in the bucket . Put a steel band ratchet in there and chinche it down clip it and then off load direct to pile Then one day Put with lift the banded stack into truck or trailer
Ken sells his wood in bulk, like 8-12 full cords at a time to one person. When people come and take "their" rows and haul it themselves, his system works great for him.
Good morning Chris!!😀😀 It's always great when you go by Kenny's place. Those two guys really work well together!! That's god's country where Kenny lives. I just love that part of the state. I would love to take a ride up with you sometime. How much inventory does Kenny figure he has right now? TTYL!! Logger Al
Thats quite an operation. its good to see different ways of processing. loved the RR ties and cutting them all at once. i know this is older but still a great video.
